Ingredients
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300 g Almond
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250 g Sugar
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1 Lemon peelgrated
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3 tablespoons Water
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15 g Icing sugar
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15 g Flour
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1 pinch Baker's ammonia
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1 Egg whites
Directions
Ricciarelli di Siena are cookies made of almonds, sugar and egg whites that are usually given as Christmas gifts along with cantucci, another typical Tuscan specialty.
This year instead of buying them I’m going to make ricciarelli along with the other 780,000 kinds of cookies I decided to make during the holidays. Luckily Christmas only comes once a year. If you love these cookies, you absolutely have to try this recipe, it is great, try it and you will agree with me, I salute you and have a good day.
Steps
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In a blender, grind peeled almonds with 200 g sugar and grated lemon peel |
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Place the resulting mixture in a bowl. |
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Then prepare a syrup by mixing 50 g sugar with 3 tbsp water in a small saucepan. |
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Simmer for a few minutes or until the syrup becomes nice and thick. |
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Pour the resulting syrup into the almond mixture and stir until it is completely absorbed. |
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Add the vanilla icing sugar, flour, and ammonia, mix, and set aside to rest for 8 hours, covering the bowl with a tea towel. |
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Now take one egg white and whip it lightly. |
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Add it to the almond mixture and process to mix well. |
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With the resulting mixture, cut out cookies, giving them the typical ovoid shape of ricciarelli. |
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Place a mound of icing sugar on a surface and spoon the cookies into it. |
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Then lay the ricciarelli on baking sheet covered with parchment paper. |
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Let dry for 30 minutes |
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Let cool and then serve your ricciarelli. |
